Spring-seat for wagons



(No Model.)

0. VAN HORN. SPRING SEATFOR WAGONS.

No. 331,101. Patented Nov. 24, 1885.

' INVENTOR:

WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

r4. PEIERS. Phulo-Limflgnpher, Waihiuglull. 11c,

. NITE il STATES ATENT tries.

SPRlNG=SEAT FOR WAGONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.331,101, dated November 2%, 1885 7 Application filed July 20, 1885. Serial No. 172,119. No model.) 7

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES VAN Honn, of Bethlehem, in the county of Northampton and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Spring-Seat for \Vagons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate 7 corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my new and improved seat. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation on the line 00 00 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged perspective view of the end of one of the springs and a part of one of the boards B inverted.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawings, and then pointed out in the claims.

A represents the top or main seat-board. B B represent two lower boards pivoted centrally in hangers C 0 below the seat-board A, and D D represent the springs secured by bolts a to the under surface of the seat-board A. The boards B B are provided at their outer ends with the cleats b b, to hold the seat upon the wagon-box, and although the said boards B may be pivoted directly to the hangers C by bolts or rods 0 c, I prefer to employ the metal plates E E, that project below the under surfaces of the boards B, through which metal plate the said rods 0 0 pass, so that when a person sits upon the board A and the ad jacent ends of the boards B are depressed by the weight the slight endwise movement of the boards B consequent upon such depression will be accommodated at the pivots, and thus prevent the outer ends of the boards B from chafing the edge of the wagon-box.

The springs D are fiat steel springs, and they are provided at their free inner ends with a swinging connecting-hasp, d, for connecting the springs with the metal plate F, secured to the inner ends of the boards B. The hasps d are by preference formed with two shoulders, d d, and with a finger projection, d, and the metal plates F are each divided to form a claw,

f, to receive or fit over the shoulders 01, so

that the spring may be securely and at the without the finger-pieces d a great deal of strength would have to be exerted to detach springs and adjust the springs to the weight upon them.

The boards B B are connected at their adjacent ends by a joint or link connection, J, composed of the metal arms j, secured to one board, the upwardly-curved metal arm j, secured to the other board, and the jointj pivoted to the ends of the two metal armsjj, so that when either board B is depressed the other must be correspondingly depressed. I11 this manner a perfectly uniform up-and-down movement of the board A will always be maintained whether one or any number or all of the springs D be connected to the boards B.

I prefer to use four springs,D; but a greater or less number may be used, if desired, according to the strength of the springs, and by connecting and disconnecting one or more of them the seat may be adjusted to carry one or more persons, and ride equally easy with a light as with a heavy weight upon it.

I do not claim, broadly, the hangers 0 E in this application, as they are claimed in my application No. 160,793, filed March 31, 1885, and allowed May 11, 1885.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A Wagou-seat consisting of the board A, having depending hangers G, springs D, the two boards B, pivoted between the hangers G, the plates F on the inner ends of said boards, and having' forked hookedends f, the connecting-hasps d, having loops at their upper ends, to which the springs D are pivotally connected, and shoulders d d at their lower ends for the hooked ends f of the pieces F, and the hooked finger -pieces d below the shoulders, the plates j between the plates F, and the links j pivoted together at their upper ends and pivoted at their lower ends to the plates j, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, in a wagon-seat, of the E, rods 0, passed through said hangers O E, the forked hooked plates F, and the looped shouldered hasps d d d, pivotally connecting the plates F and springs D, substantially as set forth.

CHAS. VAN HORN;

Witnesses:

E. G. GASSLER, FR. M. RAUOH. 

